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Mourne not your comrades who must dwell / too strong to strive -
Within each steel-bound coffin of a cell, / Buried alive;
But rather mourne the apathetic throng / The cowed, and the meek -
Who see the world’s great anguish and its wrong / And dare not speak.
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Posted by: Achronos
(in a theoretical world where a "Friends List" is just a list of bnet profiles that you can have, with no additional functionality)
I've had a few thoughts recently in this vein:
1) Obviously it could let you know who's on so you could have a chat with them. Would go handily with a more up to date PM system (threaded, to see a conversations) but would work just as well without one.
2) Bungie.net is all about stats; an internal FL would let you compare stats with your friends (like a friends leaderboard) across PC, PS3, X360, mobile, ect, all from one place. It would also be nice to find a way to incorporate your XBL, PS3, facebook, ect lists automatically or semi-automatically, so that more mainstream people could take advantage of the system without too much effort. (Kind of like XBL linking is now, but fleshed out even more, although I'd like to see the ability to remove people who maybe you have on XBL but don't want on bungienet.)
3) We apparently have mobile messaging now. I haven't tried it but I bet a friend's list would make that easier. For our more active friends, a little envelope next to each name (or something) could let them know when they have a message from someone important.
4) Discovering groups is almost as rough as finding members for one. Why not look at the groups that someone's friends are in and suggest a few that their friends have in common? Hey speaking of which, how about suggesting users who have similar friends in common? It could help with joining groups, starting
private games, and stuff like that.
The whole facebook integration thing with Crimson screams to me for a Bungie focused solution. Why are we forced to use an external website to verify identities when we all already have them here? I don't remember exactly why you needed to use facebook, but I believe part of it was finding friends for the leaderboards.
Posted by: Bob Bobinson
Any friends list + chat system should be combined in some way with Bungie's future games.Sending messages from bungie.net to your friends on whatever system would be awesome. Steam and XBL already allow this in some way, and it's definitely been useful for putting games together.
[Edited on 09.22.2011 12:40 AM PDT]